Half asleep

 

    She tells her love while half asleep,

        In the dark hours,

            With half-words whispered low:

    As Earth stirs in her winter sleep

        And puts out grass and flowers

            Despite the snow,

            Despite the falling snow.

                   

                     ~ Robert Graves

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This winding road

This pending load

This shining sky

This dawdling lie

This winding road

This skilling load

This shying sky

This dandling lie

This winding way

This hard-won day

This short-lived stay

This distant fray 

This winding road

This pending lode

This sounding sky

This dangling sigh 

I dreamed

I dreamed
that
I cried

The Problem Is

the problem with

being a dreamer

is that you're

Always

asleep & awake

awake & asleep

at the same

Time

I remember now

I remember now – 

I dreamed about the stars * * *  

Garden

I journeyed through a day

and a strange kind of night

to a place where there were flowers

- many flowers - and clouds

blooming together

in a garden of wonder. 

Again

Again - 

 - in the sleep, a dream - 
 - in the dream, a moment - 
 - in the moment, a light - 
 - in the light, an answer - 

Again - 

 - in the answer, a question - 
 - always, a question - 
 - Always - - - 

the dawning

I had a dream
that all of time
was running dry

and life was
like a comet
falling from the sky

I woke so frightened
in the dawning
oh so clear

how precious
is the time
we have here

deepest night

the night 

keeps growing darker 

I dream that I'm awake 

I can't shake this state I'm in 

Dawn

Not knowing when the Dawn will come,
I open every Door,
Or has it Feathers, like a Bird,
Or Billows, like a Shore —

~ Emily Dickinson

Dreaming?

Sorry / Not Sorry

 Mental / Not Mental 

Certain / Not Certain

     Dreaming / Not Dreaming     

Forgetting ?

An illustration to showcase the brainactivity during REM-sleep by Lorenza Walker

Bloom

feels
like I'm
dreaming

*inner bloom*

Inner

feels
like I'm
waiting

*inner bloom*

Always

Always the break Always the 
separation from that place
of knowing where I am held
buoyant enfolded whole in 
undulating vistas of 
clarity that fade always
with the last lingering plumes
of night cut sharp by the grey
daylight dulled by these senseless 
senses Always forgetting 

dreamlife

We talk about dreams as if they are distant, insubstantial, unlikely.

And yet they are the colour and movement that wash through our minds all through the secret hours of darkness. They whisper to us in their strange, ancient language of all the things that we turn away from in our busy wakefulness. 

Stripped of the hard edges of our daily expectation, our hidden desires, our fears, our deepest yearnings are drawn in clear, flowing lines, a tableau where our most precious insights are illuminated. 

This is the land where I roam lightly, where I meet angels and slay monsters, fly over forests and glide under oceans, solve mysteries and save innocents. It's where I live in countless houses, I speak every tongue, I am young, I am old, I am male, I am female, I am neither and I am both. I wear a thousand faces and  I am wrapped in a thousand embraces. 

It's the place where I am hunted by wisdom and found by truth. 

It's where I touch the beating heart of story. 

Stay Awake

I am the blank page before you

I am the fine idea you crave

I live and breathe under the moon 

Stay awake with me

Liminal

I awoke this morning with the dancing golden light of the dreamspace still clear in my mind. 

~~~

All things

Sun Through Overcast Cirrocumulus Stratiformis Clouds

All things appear or disappear like the sound of an echo:

the clouds in the sky,

the moon on the water,

the lightning, the sea foam,

the trail of a bird as it flies,

or the visions of dreams after waking.

~ Master Taisen Deshimaru

Lucid

I dream. I dream a lot.

It’s ironic, really, that someone whose sleep is so broken is rewarded by such a sumptuous palette of dream-story every night. (#narcolepsy)

But there you have it. I’m a dreamer.

Being partially asleep in your waking life is one thing, but being partially awake within your sleeping life is something altogether different.

~~~

Dreaming / Not Dreaming

Sorry / Not Sorry

 Crazy / Not Crazy 

Clue-less / Not Clueless 

     Waving / Not Drowning 

Dreaming / Not Dreaming / Dreaming 

An illustration to showcase the brainactivity during REM-sleep by Lorenza Walker